Pete Namlook & New Composers' Russian Spring gets a reissue

The 2005 collaborative effort from the ambient music pioneer will see new life later this month.

Russian Spring, Pete Namlook's 2005 album with New Composers, is getting reissued on March 18th.

Russian duo New Composers collaborated with the late ambient pioneer several times in a period of just under a decade. Russian Spring, originally released in 2005, was their final album together. Inspired by the dawning of spring after the harsh Russian winter, the album is a typical example of Namlook's approach to ambient music, featuring gentle instrumentation, loops, speech samples and field recordings—"a timeless ambient soundpainting of the Russian Spring," according to Namlook's label Fax, which originally released it. The new issue comes from Psychonavigation, an Irish imprint specializing in ambient music.

Namlook was an originator of ambient music in the early '90s, with a steady stream of music coming out on his Fax +49-69/450464 label right up until his death from a heart attack in 2012. New Composers, meanwhile, are a St. Petersburg-based duo who have their own history stretching back to the mid-'90s, and have appeared on both Fax and Psychonavigation in the past.